“After much thought and hesitation I shared it with a handful of people I trust and was pleased to hear that they considered it worthy of publication.” Harper Lee is finally ready to publish a second novel. It’s essentially a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, which was published 55 years ago. The LA Times takes a look at where Lee as been since then. (I figured she’d be writing an HBO series by now…)

+ Milan Kundera is set to publish his first novel in English in more than a decade.